“In the morning I would always draw in my sketchbook in bed,” she says. “Then it evolved into portrait drawings.”

Since she usually creates more realistic pieces, Krysiak says this public art mural design was actually out of her comfort zone. But that she wanted to capture Ferndale, an artsy city, by using lots of color and merging it into a more abstract “street art” type of design.

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The girls in her mural all have their eyes covered in paint as part of a statement about the struggle women face with being judged.

“We look a lot with our eyes, and people can be really judgmental about what they see,” Krysiak explains, adding that women are often a main target of judgmental looks.

Her mural is painted on the outside wall of the Cupcake Station, the local bakery on Nine Mile Road in downtown Ferndale, where it will be featured indefinitely.